Debian: DSA-1234-1 Moderate: Ruby CGI Denial of Service Issue

debian

December 13, 2006

A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the CGI library included with Ruby, the intepreted scripting langauge for quick and easy object-orientated programming.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update debian ruby cgi library

Summary

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version
1.6.8-12sarge3.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.6 package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian 3.1 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 995 afe54a8363d4d14b066f32b07b095dde
Size/MD5 checksum: 78860 73e5ba7c3a427ceb1bf4926cf9e440a9
Size/MD5 checksum: 1022364 aa1e272added83a5206c565d62c9c8ed

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